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| 2 | 2 | | By: Campbell S.B. No. 732 |
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| 5 | 5 | | A BILL TO BE ENTITLED |
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| 6 | 6 | | AN ACT |
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| 7 | 7 | | relating to the authority of public junior colleges to offer |
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| 8 | 8 | | certain courses and programs, including under agreements with |
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| 9 | 9 | | independent school districts. |
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| 10 | 10 | | BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: |
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| 11 | 11 | | SECTION 1. Section 29.402(a), Education Code, is amended to |
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| 12 | 12 | | read as follows: |
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| 13 | 13 | | (a) A public junior college may enter into an articulation |
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| 14 | 14 | | agreement to partner with one or more school districts located in a |
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| 15 | 15 | | county in which the service area of the junior college is wholly or |
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| 16 | 16 | | partly located [the public junior college district] to provide on |
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| 17 | 17 | | the campus of the [public] junior college a dropout recovery |
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| 18 | 18 | | program for students described by Subsection (b) to successfully |
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| 19 | 19 | | complete and receive a diploma from a high school of the appropriate |
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| 20 | 20 | | partnering school district. |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 2. Section 130.008(g), Education Code, as added by |
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| 22 | 22 | | Chapter 1177 (S.B. 1004), Acts of the 84th Legislature, Regular |
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| 23 | 23 | | Session, 2015, is redesignated as Section 130.008(g-1), Education |
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| 24 | 24 | | Code, amended to conform to the repeal of Section 130.008(f), |
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| 25 | 25 | | Education Code, by Chapter 90 (H.B. 505), Acts of the 84th |
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| 26 | 26 | | Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, and further amended to read as |
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| 27 | 27 | | follows: |
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| 28 | 28 | | (g-1) [(g)] A public junior college with a service area |
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| 29 | 29 | | located wholly or partly in a county with a population of more than |
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| 30 | 30 | | three million shall enter into an agreement with each school |
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| 31 | 31 | | district located wholly or partly in a county with a population of |
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| 32 | 32 | | more than three million to offer one or more courses as provided by |
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| 33 | 33 | | this section. [A student enrolled in a school district to which |
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| 34 | 34 | | this subsection applies may enroll in a course at any junior college |
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| 35 | 35 | | that has entered into an agreement with the district to offer the |
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| 36 | 36 | | course under this subsection. Subsection (f) does not apply to a |
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| 37 | 37 | | student who seeks to enroll in a course under this subsection.] |
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| 38 | 38 | | SECTION 3. Section 130.008, Education Code, is amended by |
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| 39 | 39 | | adding Subsections (g-2) and (g-3) to read as follows: |
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| 40 | 40 | | (g-2) A public junior college may enter into an agreement |
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| 41 | 41 | | with any school district located in a county in which the service |
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| 42 | 42 | | area of the junior college is wholly or partly located to offer one |
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| 43 | 43 | | or more courses as provided by this section. |
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| 44 | 44 | | (g-3) A high school student enrolled in a school district |
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| 45 | 45 | | may enroll in a course at any public junior college that has entered |
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| 46 | 46 | | into an agreement with the district to offer the course under this |
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| 47 | 47 | | section. |
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| 48 | 48 | | SECTION 4. Section 130.090(a), Education Code, is amended |
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| 49 | 49 | | to read as follows: |
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| 50 | 50 | | (a) The governing board of a junior college district may |
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| 51 | 51 | | contract with the governing board of any [an] independent school |
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| 52 | 52 | | district located in a county in which the junior college district's |
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| 53 | 53 | | service area is wholly or partly located for the junior college to |
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| 54 | 54 | | provide remedial programs for students enrolled in secondary |
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| 55 | 55 | | schools in the independent school district in preparation for |
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| 56 | 56 | | graduation from secondary school and entrance into college. |
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| 57 | 57 | | SECTION 5. The following provisions of the Education Code |
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| 58 | 58 | | are repealed: |
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| 59 | 59 | | (1) Section 29.402(a-1); |
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| 60 | 60 | | (2) Section 130.090(a-1); and |
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| 61 | 61 | | (3) Sections 130.251(d) and (d-1). |
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| 62 | 62 | | SECTION 6. (a) Section 130.008, Education Code, as amended |
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| 63 | 63 | | by this Act, applies beginning with the 2017 fall semester. |
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| 64 | 64 | | (b) The repeal by this Act of Sections 130.251(d) and (d-1), |
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| 65 | 65 | | Education Code, applies beginning with courses offered by a public |
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| 66 | 66 | | junior college for the 2018 spring semester. |
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| 67 | 67 | | SECTION 7. To the extent of any conflict, this Act prevails |
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| 68 | 68 | | over another Act of the 85th Legislature, Regular Session, 2017, |
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| 69 | 69 | | relating to nonsubstantive additions to and corrections in enacted |
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| 70 | 70 | | codes. |
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| 71 | 71 | | SECTION 8. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives |
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| 72 | 72 | | a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as |
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| 73 | 73 | | provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this |
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| 74 | 74 | | Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this |
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| 75 | 75 | | Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |
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